More Manly Men

Another thing about how men's brains work is shown through the ridiculous character of Dogberry. Guys also can have a hard time with letting things go. Girls, if you don't get this it's like calling a man a little boy; it's a total slap in the face.

One that lingers too...
Especially when someone criticizes how they do their job. Dogberry has this exact situation happen.

A servant calls Dogberry an ass because of the ludicrous way he does his interrogations (which is total gestus btw which I talked about about a month ago. The guards are played up to be complete idiots so that the lower class can have something to laugh at back in Shakespeare's day). So Dogberry gets totally defensive and calls for the scribe to come back just to write that down. check it out :)


DOGBERRY

Dost thou not suspect my place? dost thou not
suspect my years? O that he were here to write me
down an ass! But, masters, remember that I am an
ass; though it be not written down, yet forget not
that I am an ass. No, thou villain, thou art full of
piety, as shall be proved upon thee by good witness.
I am a wise fellow, and, which is more, an officer,
and, which is more, a householder, and, which is
more, as pretty a piece of flesh as any is in
Messina, and one that knows the law, go to; and a
rich fellow enough, go to; and a fellow that hath
had losses, and one that hath two gowns and every
thing handsome about him. Bring him away. O that
I had been writ down an ass!

So lesson learned boys and girls, don't blatantly criticize a man for what he does unless you want him to harbor bad feelings towards you for a while ;)